Justice reform
Suppose you have a house with a friend and that everyone has a place in the building.
Read MoreLe Pen and Santorum
The high votes obtained by the candidates from the extreme right in the presidential campaigns currently being conducted in France and the United States was astonishing. Last Sunday, in France, Marine Le Pen, National Front candidate, obtained 18% of the votes, well over 11% earned by Jean-Luc Mélenchon from the extreme left. While the winner of the contest was François Hollande from the Socialist Party (28% of the votes), the votes for Le Pen were very high and it converts her party into a major political player for the elections of 2017.
Read MoreNational pride
The Summit of Cartagena became a debate over the image of Colombia to the world. Did this event really improve that image? Naturally, there were two positions. The optimistic and pessimistic.
Read MoreDoubt and certainty bartered
A fundamentalist is someone who always accommodates reality to his beliefs and, because of that, is never willing to adapt its principles to the changes occurring in the world.
Read MoreMi friend Juan
The most beautiful definition of affection between friends I know I read it in Aristotle: “Friendship, says the philosopher, is a soul caught between two bodies.” Following the logic of this definition, when one of these bodies has a disease, the shared soul of the relieved friend suffers almost equally.
Read MoreThe good citizen
There was an Ecuatorian president whose motto was “Death to the Constitution and long life to religion.”
Read MoreThe two faces of hope
Hope is an ambiguous feeling.
Read MoreOil, schools, and swords
I’ve always loved the Hungarian proverb: “If your sword is too short, take one step forward.”
Read MoreWhat are the condemned for?
In 1757, in France, Damiens was caught after he tried to kill Louis XV.
Read MoreThe government and the unions: two opposing Antioquias
The fight is not between Bogota and Medellin, but between progressive and reactionary “paisas”. This short paper re-enacts the story of an Antioquia that punctuated progress and modernity in the midst of a prudish country, and the other Antioquia which has lately been at the forefront of the extreme right. Who will prevail?
Read MoreColombia, Beloved Land
The Constitutional Court has just made an ultimatum to the government so it redesigns it’s Protection and Land Restitution policy.
Read MoreAmazon: gratitude to the paperback books crisis
Today I say goodbye to the paperback books. And I bet you already took that step or will do it in five or ten years.
Read MoreThe Sidewalks
Everytime I go to a city or a town, I take a look on the sidewalks: how they are made, how large they are, if they have ramps or not, and so on.
Read MoreThe protagonist Ombudsman
We have an Ombudsman who affirms to be commited with Human Rights without protagonism and that paradoxically is the protagonist of some scandals.
Read MoreDrugs and Common Sense
Which must be the democratic answer to the problem of Drugs and it’s trafficking? That’s a question with obvous importance to the Colombians.
Read MoreThe Suspicious
During the French Revolution it was comunicated the famous law against suspicious.
Read MoreFrom Cartagena to Chocó: the violence of racism.
In what are similar the street of the Arsenal (the fanciest of the Pink Zone in Cartagena) and the miserable borders of the Atrato River in Chocó? At first sight, in anything.
Read MoreSocial Impunity
In a recent research we developed in Dejusticia about people who are used to avoid the lines in several places in Bogota, we found that even if that behaviour changes depending of the place -at school is more common than the airport- the Rule Brakers not only are a lot in the city but also there is few people who protest this directly to them. Even more, what we confirmed is that there exist so many Rule Brakers because nobody criticize them.
Read MoreThe return of the Leaders
Without Chavez there can’t be chavism, without that one can’t be refoundation of the republic, without this one there can’t be security or economic growth.
Read MoreA law of precedent in favour of the equality and the diversity
Last wednesday, the Constitutional Court modified 42 articles in several aspects of the colombian legal system, in order to make equal rights and obligations for couples of the same sex compared to the heterosexual’s.
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